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Ben-Naim, Shiri; Laslo-Roth, Roni; Einav, Michal; Biran, Hadar; Margalit, Malka – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2017
Some resilient students with LD succeed 'against the odds' and reach college. The goals of the study are to explore their resources and barriers during their studies. The relationships between academic self-efficacy (ASE) and personal resources (sense of coherence (SOC) and hope) among college students with learning disabilities (LD) will be…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Self Efficacy, College Students, Statistical Analysis
Holzberg, Debra G.; Test, David W.; Rusher, Dana E. – Remedial and Special Education, 2019
For students with high-incidence disabilities, the transition from secondary to postsecondary educational settings poses the additional challenge of acquiring accommodations. Self-advocacy interventions have been identified as important skills for students with disabilities in accessing accommodations. The purpose of this study was to examine the…
Descriptors: Advocacy, High School Students, Mild Disabilities, Conflict Resolution
Oladele, Adetoun Olubanke; Oladele, Isaac Taiwo – Online Submission, 2016
This study investigated depression and suicidal ideation in students with and without learning disabilities in two Colleges of Education in Nigeria. The students in this study were between 18 and 24 years old, numbering 391 in total. The number of male students was 165, while female students were 226. Five valid and reliable instruments were used…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Suicide, College Students, Higher Education
Porch, Lewis Alan – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Subjects participating in this research project were interviewed to gather data for this study. These participants were college students who were attending or had attended the University of Oklahoma and are members of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. These interviews investigated reasons for student enrollment, retention and withdrawal. The findings…
Descriptors: College Students, American Indians, Academic Persistence, Values
Griffin, Edward; Pollak, David – Dyslexia, 2009
The number of students with identified learning differences (LDs) of all kinds is increasing in higher education. This qualitative study explored the experiences of 27 current and previous students with a range of specific LDs by means of semi-structured interviews, using a thematic approach. The findings revealed that participants shared many…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Diversity, College Students, Experience

Dempster, Frank N.; Cooney, John B. – Intelligence, 1982
Individual differences in digit span, susceptibility to proactive interference, and various aptitude/achievement test scores were investigated in two experiments with college students. Results indicated that digit span was strongly correlated with aptitude/achievement scores, but did not indicate that susceptibility to proactive interference…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Cognitive Processes, Correlation
Braun, Henry; And Others – 1986
From the fall of 1981 through June 1984, more than 850 disabled examinees took special administration of the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE). Grade point averages were obtained on 278 disabled students; 236 had enough complete data to be included in the study. Disabled students earned lower mean GRE scores than their nonhandicapped counterparts…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, College Entrance Examinations, Correlation, Grade Point Average
Ziomek, Robert L.; Andrews, Kevin M. – 1996
This study provides information regarding the validity of the regression model for the American College Testing Program assessment (ACT), incorporating high school course grades and ACT test scores, for predicting the first-year college grade point averages (GPAs) of ACT-tested special-needs students. The sample of special-tested students used in…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, College Freshmen, Correlation, Grade Point Average